books

Music books and specialized literature on contemporary music, jazz, music education, sound art, biographies, and music history.

Switching Worlds

The readjustment of a digitally influenced or digitally reflective perspective as a compositional strategy.

29,80 €

Alvin Lucier. Reflections

A comprehensive collection of interviews, scores and writings by one of the most important minimalist composers of the past.

38,00 €

Über Hindemith und Andere

On the occasion of his 125th birthday: Günther Metz sheds light on Hindemith's life, work, and legacy—in a multifaceted and well-founded manner.

48,00 €

Vom Leid zum Lied

Between Stage Glory and Failure: Three Artists' Fates, Between Pathos and Parody.

9,00 €

Adorno and the Aesthetics of Postwar Serial Music

This groundbreaking study examines Adorno's intensive engagement with postwar serial music and its influence on his aesthetic theory.

20,00 €

Die Oper des 20. Jahrhunderts in 100 Meisterwerken

The masterpieces featured in this book allow readers to relive the period between 1901 and 2000.

39,80 €

op. 111

Over the years, Arno Lücker has devoted himself once again to every single bar of this sonata. The document of a hitherto unique engagement with a musical work.

29,00 €

POSITIONEN!

The 16th Jazzforum asks how socially relevant improvised music still is today.

24,00 €

Pariser Portraits

Caprices 8 looks back on the turbulent era of art in Paris between the Belle Époque and the 1920s.

12,00 €

Mieczysław Weinberg

The second edition of Fanning’s monograph on Weinberg, now available in paperback. The life of a composer amid persecution, dictatorship, and unwavering creative energy.

24,80 €

European Echoes

This book is a historical and interpretative study of the jazz experimentalism movement in West and East Germany between 1950 and 1975.

29,00 €

Die Sprache des Hasses

Analysis of Wagner's pamphlet as an example of ethnic hate speech and rhetorical structure in the context of 19th-century German cultural nationalism.

8,00 €

Ozeanisches Gefühl

Theodor Fontane and Romain Rolland on Richard Wagner and Ludwig van Beethoven.